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Arthur Conan Doyle

(1859–1930, kt 1902)Author remembered mainly for the creation of Sherlock *Holmes. But his prolific output included also historical novels, science fiction and a series of books about another highly memorable character, Brigadier Gerard, an endearingly boastful French officer in the Napoleonic wars.